INJURIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does injuriousness mean? 

• INJURIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun INJURIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. destructiveness that causes harm or injury

  Familiarity information: INJURIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INJURIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destructiveness that causes harm or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

harmfulness; injuriousness

Hypernyms ("injuriousness" is a kind of...):

destructiveness (the quality of causing destruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injuriousness"):

insidiousness (subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease))

virulence; virulency (extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease))

Derivation:

injurious (harmful to living things)